The New York Times
ACROSS
1 Off-the-cuff remarks 7 London TV inits. 10 Dark wines 14 Place for daisies 15 Fair-hiring letters 16 Treat with a 71%to-29% cookie-tocream ratio 17 Microscopic life form
18 Looks for web content about oneself 20 Basic, practical details
22 “___ Poetica” 23 Connery who played 007 seven times 24 Catbird seat? 28 Crystal ball gazers, e.g. 31 Nobelist Wiesel 33 “Well, what a surprise!”
34 What expensive things cost 38 Brings home with a hit, as a base runner
41 Treble symbols 42 Magnet for
criticism
46 “What ___, chopped liver?” 47 Vicinity 48 Sniffed (around) 52 Prove appropriate for 55 Has a part
to play 57 Mahmoud Abbas’s grp.
58 Doctor whose shopping list might include 20-, 34- and 42-Across? 62 Prowling kitty 65 Virtual payment with a bank routing number 66 “Star Wars” princess 67 “East” on a grandfather clock 68 Band’s hired hand 69 Brewski 70 Beats by ___ (headphones brand)
71 Full of S curves
DOWN
1 Alternatives to Maytags
2 Modest and shy 3 Chinese philosopher who wrote the “Tao Te Ching” 4 Fateful day for Caesar
5 Word before tea or
Fett
6 What some ugly ducklings turn into
7 Flowering plant also known as horsemint 8 Colorful garden perennial 9 “Suh-weet!” 10 Awaken
11 Goof
12 ___ Jam Recordings 13 Castaway’s “Help!” 19 Canful at a gas station 21 Venison 25 Something played that’s not a game 26 ___ Boyardee 27 Harleys, in slang 29 Poison ivy eruption
30 Fit of irritation 32 Head of a train: Abbr.
35 Tennis’s Kournikova
36 Big name in pesticides
37 ___ Ray, 1950s-’70s leading man 38 Spill the beans 39 “Je t’___” (French words of endearment) 40 End-of-the-week shout 43 Carrier based in Tehran
44 Item left at home on casual Fridays
45 Place for a guard 49 Goes 60 in a 30-m.p.h. zone, say
50 Draw out
51 Shrek’s companion in “Shrek” 53 Worrier’s opening words 54 Urging for a reluctant person 56 Hägar the Horrible’s dog 59 Battery liquid 60 Trash-hauling ship 61 Kind of cuisine offering tom yung goong and tom kha kai 62 Edmonton’s prov. 63 Spike or Gypsy Rose 64 “Tuesday is the hardest crossword of the week,” e.g.